Comparison

OpenTSDB vs Prometheus

On the evidence we track, Prometheus leads this comparison with a composite score of 69/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
OpenTSDB29
Prometheus69
Score
Vioscale score
OpenTSDB29 / 100low · 37%updating
Prometheus69 / 100medium · 58%updating
Pricing
Free tier
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
Model
OpenTSDBopen_source
Prometheusopen_source
Price level
OpenTSDBfree
Prometheusfree
Transparent
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
Integrations
Count
OpenTSDB
Prometheus18
Reliability
Status page
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
Adoption
Dependent repos
OpenTSDB175
Prometheus5,467
Github stars
OpenTSDB5,065
Prometheus65,837
Package downloads weekly
OpenTSDB22
Prometheus9,036,061
Activity
Commits last 30d
OpenTSDB0
Prometheus100
Release
Cadence days
OpenTSDB77
Prometheus6
History
OpenTSDB20 items
Prometheus20 items
License
Spdx
OpenTSDBLGPL-2.1
PrometheusApache-2.0
Language
Primary
OpenTSDBJava
PrometheusGo
Market
Availability
OpenTSDB

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for time-series databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Query
Query language (SQL / PromQL / InfluxQL-Flux / Graphite)
OpenTSDB-
PrometheusPromQL
SQL compatibility
OpenTSDB-
PrometheusNon-SQL
Ingest
Ingest model
OpenTSDBPush
PrometheusBoth
Model
Data model
OpenTSDBMetrics (labels/tags)
PrometheusMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
OpenTSDBContinuous aggregates
Prometheus-
Retention / TTL
OpenTSDBManual
Prometheus-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
OpenTSDB-
Prometheus-
Performance
High-cardinality handling
OpenTSDB-
PrometheusStrong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
OpenTSDBDistributed / sharded
PrometheusDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
OpenTSDB-
Prometheus
Deployment
Deployment
OpenTSDBSelf-hosted
PrometheusSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
OpenTSDB-
Prometheus
Licensing
Licence class
OpenTSDBPermissive OSS
PrometheusPermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

OpenTSDB

An open-source time series database built on Hadoop and HBase that stores metric data with millisecond precision and scales to millions of writes per second.

Independently observed

Prometheus

Leader

A systems monitoring platform that collects metrics from configured targets at regular intervals, evaluates alert rules using PromQL, and triggers notifications. It uses a dimensional data model with key-value labels for flexible metric analysis and dashboarding.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

OpenTSDB

Open source
as of verify ↗

Prometheus

Leader
Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
macOS
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
Windows
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
Linux
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
CLI
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
Deployment
Self-hosted
OpenTSDB
Prometheus
On-premise
OpenTSDB
Prometheus

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

OpenTSDB

Not documented yet.

Prometheus

Leader
17 total
  • Amazon SNS
  • Discord
  • incident.io
  • Jira
  • Mattermost
  • Microsoft Teams
  • OpsGenie
  • PagerDuty
  • Pushover
  • Rocket.Chat
  • Slack
  • Telegram
  • VictorOps
  • Webex
  • WeChat
  • Webhook
  • Email
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.